Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.